Buyer's Guide

The Self-Storage Buyer's Guide is the industry's one-stop online marketplace for information on vendors servicing all aspects of the self-storage industry. We are a large industry and it is impossible to keep an inventory on all vendors ... so let the education experts at MiniCo Publishing handle that for you. Self-storage owners, operators, managers, and vendors alike can search for local or national companies and vendors to work with and contact them with no middle-man, unlike other directory and vendor locator databases. True to our primary charter of educating the industry, the Self-Storage Buyer's Guide is there to educate visitors as to who the Top Self-Storage Vendors are and give them multiple points of contact to facilitate vendor/buyer connections. Our list of vendors and vendor categories is always growing and if a need arises for information on a particular category that is not representing in our list, please let us know and we’ll get to work gathering data on vendors for you.

ARE Associates is a full-service architectural firm, specializing in RV and self storage since 1998. ARE provides its clients with a full range of services, from the initial site planning and design through construction. It performs entitlement processing, project design and construction documents, taking the project from the very beginning all the way through to the final inspection. ARE also assists its clients in securing all of the other services they need to complete their projects, like feasibility/marketing studies, financing, finding building contractors and management training, to name just a few.

Edgecomb & Associates has provided over 30 years of consulting services to the self-storage industry in the location, design, planning, development, construction documents, and construction administration for single- and multi-story facilities, ambient and climate-controlled units, and boat/RV storage.

Noah’s Ark Development stands out as an industry leader in the planning and development of self storage facilities. With over three decades of expertise and over nine million square feet built, Noah’s Ark Development offers a unique one stop shop experience and provides an array of services in consulting and market research, site planning, feasibility, business plans, and project management all of which is geared to help insure successful self storage property development.

River City Design is a drafting & design company specializing in self-storage. The company works with architects, engineers, contractors, and owners to provide building layouts, unit mix layouts, value engineering, installation/erection drawings, and material list facilitation. River City Design has completed in excess of 15 million square feet of self-storage.

Providing efficient and effective turnkey construction services to the self-storage industry, SBS Construction is skilled in all aspects of general contracting, design-build, construction management, and project development. A diverse portfolio of successful projects completed for national developers to local operators is lasting evidence of SBS's budget-driven team's capabilities.

Universal Storage Group (USG) provides fee management, consulting, training, and developmental services to large and small operators everywhere. Their superlative marketing, yield management, and auction services keep them a Top Operator year after year. USG is the Home of the Hat Lady, Anne Ballard, one of the industry's leading self-storage experts. With the experience from producing 11 Mini-Storage Messenger Facility of the Year Winners, USG provides superb facility design and layout direction, as well as facility branding concept and management. Winners of five ISS Best of Business Awards for Best Manager Training, USG knows storage marketing and operations, and can make a noticeable difference in your facility's performance. No matter the stage you are at, whether you're just gathering information, clearing land, under construction, or already up and running, please call USG for a free consultation. The company would love the opportunity to discuss your interest and goals in the self-storage industry, and help you reach your next level.

About Mini Storage Messenger

Established in 1979, the Mini-Storage Messenger, published by MiniCo Insurance Agency, is the leading monthly publication covering the global self-storage industry. The Mini-Storage Messenger is, first and foremost, an unbiased education tool for the self-storage industry. All of our articles, either written by our in-house writers or contributed by industry leaders, provide the highest-value educational takeaway of any other publication in our industry and that is why we continue to have record subscription levels year over year. Other resources we publish include the annual Self-Storage Almanac, Self-Storage Canada and Self-Storage Now! Advertising is available in both print and digital versions of each publication. MiniCo also offers custom publishing services including editing, cover art, layout and design, printing, marketing and promotion, sales and custom options.